Novosibirsk Serial Murders

The Novosibirsk Serial Murders are a series of unsolved serial killings that occurred in Novosibirsk, Russia, where 17 women were murdered between 1998 and 2006. The victims were prostitutes, and the killings were tied to one individual, dubbed the Maniac of Novosibirsk or Novosibirsky Manyak (Russian: Новосибирский маньяк). Despite a large-scale investigation by police and several arrests, the perpetrator of the killings has never been formally identified. Murders: Beginning in 1998, beheaded and dismembered female corpses were found in or near the city of Novosibirsk, in the Siberia region of central Russia. All of the murders took place in desolate areas in the outskirts of the city, such as landfills, windbreaks, and hard shoulder of roads, causing the police to see them as unrelated for many years. The corpses were found dismembered, and body parts were mutilated with symbols cut into their skin, and their heart had been removed. The mutilation was often extreme to the point many of the victims were so badly disfigured that police were unable to identify them. The victims were all later found to be active prostitutes working in the Novosibirsk area. In 2005, investigators concluded that the murders were perpetrated by a single killer, however since 2006 no murders related to the case have been reported and no charges were ever made. Due to the sudden ending of the killings in 2006, the investigators believe that the unknown perpetrator may possibly have been coincidentally arrested, died, or fled Novosibirsk. Arrests- 2015 Ivanov arrest: In October 2015, a taxi driver named Alexei Ivanov was arrested by investigators who suspected him of being the Maniac of Novosibirsk, but Ivanov later confessed to several murders unrelated to the actions of the maniac. 2016 Tchuplisnkiy arrest: On 28 April 2016, Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation reported that a suspect had been arrested, later identified as 51-year-old former policeman Evgeniy Tchuplisnkiy, however he has not been found guilty of the killings.